Top Software Engineer Jobs in Melbourne

Develop and maintain scalable backend software through hands-on coding, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting. Lead technical discussions, independently deliver medium-sized projects, improve engineering processes, and contribute to company objectives. Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders, communicate technical concepts, share best practices, and mentor junior engineers. The role focuses on Node.js, microservices, cloud services, CI/CD, subscriptions technology, TypeScript, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, and Elasticsearch, with opportunities for full-stack development.

Build and improve a platform that ingests smart-meter time series data, models household energy consumption, simulates battery performance, and prioritises features that drive revenue. Work across backend (Python/Clojure), frontend (TypeScript), time-series databases, and classical ML models to deliver production-ready analyses and experiments; collaborate with founder, UX specialist, and overseas developers; possibly manage a contractor.

Build and improve backend and data pipelines to fetch and analyze smart meter time-series data, develop classical ML models to size batteries, prioritize features that drive revenue, and collaborate with founder, UX, and contractors to ship experiments rapidly.

Supports commissioning, integration testing, debugging, QA, and release verification for warehouse automation software integrated with materials handling equipment. The role writes test scripts, tracks issues and results, prepares reports, supports customer acceptance testing and startup, trains end users, and coordinates with project, systems integration, and controls engineering teams. Work involves WMS/WCS software, SQL databases, Linux commands, C, scripting languages, and occasional after-hours or weekend commissioning activities.

The role involves working closely with the product team to develop and scale features, utilizing full-stack technologies in a fast-paced environment.

Build and maintain Go-based backend services, APIs, microservices, and CLI tools for internal developer experience. Automate operational workflows, access management, governance, and infrastructure provisioning. Design scalable systems integrating SaaS platforms, systems of record, and internal infrastructure. Deploy and operate services on Kubernetes/EKS, while profiling and optimizing performance. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver reliable platform capabilities and self-service tooling.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable backend systems supporting Alpaca’s financial ledger and brokerage infrastructure. Own high-visibility features from design through deployment, collaborate with finance, operations, product, and engineering stakeholders, and improve system health. Build performant, reliable, maintainable services using modern distributed systems technologies while ensuring the ledger remains a correct source of truth for account transactions, reporting, and compliance.

Designs, develops, integrates, tests, and maintains production embedded Linux software for vehicle systems. Responsibilities include modern C/C++ and Qt/QML development, Yocto platform maintenance, Python automation, CI/CD, automated testing, debugging across hardware and software boundaries, release management, architecture, documentation, and production support. The role also provides technical leadership and mentorship while collaborating with multidisciplinary engineering, manufacturing, cybersecurity, and supplier teams.

Develop and optimize embedded software and firmware for quantum sensors, including Linux kernel drivers and user-space tools. Integrate with electronics, test and debug systems, implement unit tests, and follow best practices (version control, code review, documentation). Collaborate with engineers and physicists to improve performance and reliability.

Develop and optimize embedded software and firmware for quantum sensors, including Linux kernel/driver development, integration with electronics and communication interfaces, testing, debugging, and building monitoring and UI tools. Collaborate with engineers and physicists to define system requirements and follow best practices like version control, unit testing, and documentation.

As a Staff Software Engineer, you'll lead frontend architecture, improve system scalability, mentor engineers, and deliver high-quality software solutions.

Build end-to-end features across Next.js frontends, API routes, Go services and Supabase edge functions. Work with the Engineering Lead to deliver the technical roadmap, write tests and docs, review PRs, support scaling and IaC (SST/Pulumi) on AWS/Vercel, and be a dependable on-call senior engineer helping the team ship product-focused increments.

Design, build, and operate resilient Java and Spring Boot backend services for inventory availability, order promising, and fulfillment. Develop event-driven Kafka integrations, concurrency and consistency controls, caching strategies, observability, and graceful degradation mechanisms. Own services from design through production, optimize performance and reliability, integrate with commerce and enterprise platforms, conduct code reviews, document architecture decisions, and mentor junior engineers.

Own quality strategy, automated testing, and test execution for omnichannel commerce capabilities. Build scalable API, integration, contract, event-driven, and end-to-end test frameworks; manage complex test data; integrate quality gates and regression testing into CI/CD pipelines; define quality metrics; validate order, inventory, fulfillment, returns, and post-purchase workflows; and mentor engineers on quality practices and automation.

As a Software Engineer - L3 Support, you will resolve complex Ubuntu-related issues, collaborate with teams, and participate in upstream communities to drive bug fixes and improvements.

As a Software Engineer, you will resolve complex customer issues related to Ubuntu and open source software, participate in upstream communities, and develop and review code across multiple layers of the software stack.

Build and deliver frontend features across Vue, Angular, and React surfaces; write well-tested TypeScript; own features end-to-end; collaborate with product, design, and backend on a serverless AWS stack; mentor engineers and evolve frontend architecture for scale.

Architect, develop, integrate, test, debug, and optimize embedded software for diverse hardware platforms using RTOS, bare-metal, Zephyr, and Linux environments. Lead software architecture, system validation, test automation, and multi-threaded application development while collaborating with hardware and software teams. Define test strategies, analyze defects, document designs, conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, optimize performance and power usage, and contribute to open-source projects.

Design, implement, and maintain scalable Java-based software solutions. Collaborate across the SDLC with stakeholders and development teams, integrate DevOps and CI/CD practices, support operational tasks, ensure security and performance, drive feature development, conduct code reviews, and stay current with emerging technologies.

Develop and maintain high-security mobile applications using React Native, Swift, or Kotlin. Implement biometric authentication and secure key storage, collaborate with cross-functional teams to design and deliver features, troubleshoot performance issues, and propose technology improvements to enhance security and user experience.

Develop and optimize Soroban smart contracts on the Stellar network, integrate anchor services for cross-border payments, collaborate with teams, test and debug contracts, document processes, and provide technical support while staying current with blockchain and payments trends.

Implement EVM-compatible features, optimize gas usage, develop and test smart contracts, validate Ethereum infrastructure, provide technical support, and collaborate on Ethereum performance and tooling improvements.

The Senior Software Engineer in Test builds and executes automated tests, develops testing tools, and collaborates on technical designs while ensuring system testability for the TraceLink platform.

Design, implement, test and deploy cloud-based data products and services. Maintain and modernise systems, ensure reliability, security and scalability, build ETL/data pipelines, tune performance, and support production environments.

The Senior Software Engineer will engage in coding, testing, and debugging, lead projects, mentor junior engineers, and innovate within teams to improve software solutions while collaborating with stakeholders.